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July 12, 2007
Macbeth (2006, 1/2 *)
Cheesy, flimsy Bardsploitation, Geoffrey Wright’s on-the-cheap Macbeth is a Melbourne-set modernization of the Shakespeare play, is almost laughable at how inaptly his 
actors render the verse, but there’s enough imagery and outright savagery to elevate this post-Lurhmannist enterprise above Aussie-inflected word salad. (It’s not quite the Scarface-like “Tony Macbeth” Wright seems to be aiming for, lacking time, money or talent to pull it off.) Wright doesn’t attain the energy of earlier work like Romper Stomper, but this Macbeth still splashes and slashes and writhes in lovingly superfluous fuck scenes and shoot-‘em-ups. (A four-minute newsreel from Orson Welles' theatrical "Macbeth"; a minute-long clip of Welles' likely reaction if he'd seen this version of the Scottish play ("Ahhhhhh.... The French champagne!"); and an interview from SBS's "The Movie Show" with Wright at the jump.) [Ray Pride.]
Posted by Ray Pride at July 12, 2007 01:08 PM
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